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II. Botanical Notes from Wigtownshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and 

 Dumfriesshire, December, 1S90. 



By James M 'Andrew, New-tralloway. 



During last July (1890) I again visited Wigtownshire for the 

 purpose of studying its flora. I spent a week with the Rev. 

 James Gorrie, F.C. Manse, Sorbie ; and as the result of our work 

 in and around that parish, we added the following plants as new 

 records for Wigtownshire. In Capenoch Moss, north-west of 

 Wliauphill Station, we gathered 1, Drosera intermedia ; 2, Lyco- 

 podium selaginoides ; 3, Scirpus fuitans; 4, Carex (Ederi, Ehrli ; 

 and 5, a Utricularia, which Mr Arthur Bennett thinks may be 

 Bremii. But for a true determination the plant must be gathered 

 in flower. In the neighbourhood of Sorbie village we found 6, 

 Erophila vulgaris ( Draha verna) ; 7, Ilabenaria bifolia ; and 8, 

 Ranunculus bulbosus. At Dowalton Loch we gathered 9, Ly co- 

 podium selago ; 10, Utricularia vidgaris ; W, Nitella opaca ; 12, 

 Polypodium dryopteris ; and we saw growing at Stonehouse the 

 following ferns, which had been taken from the same loch : — 13, 

 Cystopleris fragilis ; 14, Polypodium phegopteris ; 15, Polystichum 

 lobatum; and 16, Polystichum acidentxun. At Ravenstone, or 

 Wliite Loch, we got 1 7, Radiola millegrana. In addition to the 

 above, Mr Gorrie has found 18, Saxifraga gramdata in the 

 grounds of Galloway House, and 19, Ilyoscyanus niger, in Rigg 

 Bay, south of Garliestown. 



The most interesting botanical ground Mr Gorrie and I visited 

 was Dowalton Loch, which, .about twenty-five years ago, was 

 drained for agricultural purposes, thus exposing to view several 

 lacustrine dwellings, and the remains of a large canoe. Owing 

 to the very wet summer this year, botanizing this drained loch, 

 except along its margin, was out of the question, but from what 

 we observed I have no doubt it would amply repay a careful 

 search. It has several interesting ferns along its margin. Here 

 we gathered Ophioglossum ndgatum, Cryptogramme crispa, 

 Sagina nodosa, Ranunculus sceleratus, Filago Germanica, dec. 



I next visited Drummore, a pleasant and clean village near the 

 south of the Rhinns, with the intention of confirming, as far as 

 possible, some of the records of the rare plants found in the 

 neighbourhood of the Mull of Galloway. Here for three weeks 



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